The Idea of India
Archive for April 13th, 2010
A Dancer’s Map Of Lucknow
A Dancer's Map Of Lucknow

          Jab chhorh chaley Lakhnau nagari, Kaho haal adam par kya guzeri… (When we left our beloved Lucknow, See what befell us..) Wajid Ali Shah   Its [British colonial education] cumulative effect was to be described…as nothing short of a chasm that…made it impossible for the new generation of the educated […]